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‘Azzun, ‘Azzun ‘Atma, Eliyahu Crossing, Habla, Tue 2.3.10, Morning

Observers: Nataly and Ruthi
Mar-02-2010
| Morning

07:30 Habala Agricultural Gate
It's the day after the closure in the Territories, Thursday to Monday, the Purim Closure.This gate serves the persons who pass to their agricultural land that is situated beyond the Separation Wall that surrounds the village of Habala, to the Seamline.The gate is opened by the army for an hour, in the morning (06:45), at noon (11:45), and in the evening (16:45).

At 07:30 about 50 people are waiting, there are also a few carts hitched to a donkey or a horse. They enter the checking room one by one; the queue hardly advances at all, a person who came out towards us told us that he has been waiting in the queue for two hours. People arrive at 05:30 in order to pass at the CP as early as possible, but the checking process is extremely slow! We too are witness to this. We called the DCO and a pleasant very young girl (impossible not to come to this conclusion) answers that she'll try to find out.  We left at 08:10, the gate was still open, and there were about 20 people waiting.

08:15 Eliyahu Gate
25 workmen are waiting at the turnstiles to pass on westwards. We did not tarry as we intended to get to Azzun Atma in the north and to be in time to see the morning problems.

08:25 Azzun
This is our first time at the village of Azzun. There are many closed shops; very few people are around. We also passed the villages of Tholat, Saniriya and Beit Amin.

08:45 Azzun Atma
We reached the northern CP of Azzun Atma, which we have heard was  problematic. There is a watch tower and a checking room, and 4 soldiers outside. We arrived too late to see the workmen who pass here in the morning.

The Sha'arey Tiqva settlement is practically linked here to the security road and the separation wall, and it seems that this CP, between Azzun Atma and the adjoining villages and the town of Kilkilya, is here because of this settlement.

Two cars arrive; their passengers descend and go to the blocked turnstile. A soldier outside shouts to open it. A girl soldier inside opens it and they enter the checking room one by one. The cars are being checked thoroughly, the doors and the luggage compartment are opened. Other cars arrive and pass. A Palestinian lets his donkey pass ("he knows the way home by himself").

We left at 09:30. Next time we shall arrive earlier.

  • 'Azzun

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    • Azoun (updated February 2019)

      A Palestinian town situated in Area B (under civil Palestinian control and Israeli security control), 

      on road 5 between Nablus and Qalqiliya, east of Nabi Elias village. The inhabitants are allowed to construct and improve infrastructures. The Separation Fence has confiscated lands belonging to the town's people. In 2018 olive tree groves owned by one of its inhabitants were confiscated for the sake of paving a road to bypass Nabi Elias. Azoun population numbers 13,000, its economic state dire. Its infrastructures are poor, neglect and poverty rampant. In the meantime, the town council has completed paving an internal road for the inhabitants' welfare.

      Because of its proximity to the Jewish settler-colony of Karnei Shomron and its outposts, the town suffers the intense presence of the Israeli army, especially at nighttime: soldiers enter homes, arrest suspects, trash the house and sometimes ruin it, as they do in numerous places in the West Bank. At times a checkpoint closes the entrance to the town, so no one can come in or get out.

       

  • 'Azzun 'Atma

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    • 'Azzun 'Atma
      A Palestinian village of about 1,800 residents. The settlement of Sha'arei Tikva was established on its land adjacent to it, and the settlement of Oranit was established on its agricultural lands. By 2013, the separation fence had passed through the village and a checkpoint staffed by the army allowed the residents to cross from side to side. After building a massive wall surrounding the village and some of its agricultural lands, the residents went daily for five years to their lands that remained in the Seam Zone through the Oranit agricultural checkpoint (4). Since 2018 it has only  opened during the olive harvest and the farmers have to pass daily at the Beit Amin / Abu Salman checkpoint (1447), about 3 kilometers north.

      From a report from March 24, 2021: "The farmers from Beit Amin and Azon Atma are happy that since February 21 the Oranit checkpoint .is going to be open 3 times a day, The farmers are really developing the place."

      Report from July 14, 2024: "Ornit checkpoint is closed . The Beit Amin/Abu Salman agricultural checkpoint is closed (there is no contact with the military to check if it opens rarely), the Ezbat Jaloud checkpoint was opened once a day before the war.

      Updated for July 2024

       

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  • Eliyahu CP (109) / Crossing

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    • Eliyahu CP (109) / Crossing This checkpoint, also known as the Fruit Crossing, is one of the main checkpoints between Israel and the West Bank. It is located on Route 55 between Alfei Menashe and the turn to Qalqilya and Zufin, more than 4 km east of the Green Line, in the separation fence, which separates Qalqilya from its lands to the south, thus leaving Alfei Menashe West of the fence - the Seam Zone. This checkpoint, a few kilometers across the Green Line, is intended for "Israeli settlement in the West Bank and the population of the Seam Zone." It is managed by a civil company. Palestinians with a special permit for their lands in the seam area are also allowed to pass through it, on foot, and sometimes by car.  
  • Habla

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    • Habla CP (1393)

      The Habla checkpoint (1393) was established on the lands of the residents of Qalqilya, on the short road that

      connected it for centuries to the nearby town of Habla. The separation barrier intersects this road twice and cut off the residents of Qalqilya from their lands in the seam zone.(between the fence and the green line).
      There is a passage under Road 55 that connects Qalqilya to the sabotage This agricultural barrier is used by the farmers and nursery owners established along Road 55 from the Green Line and on both sides of the kurkar road leading to the checkpoint.
      This agricultural checkpoint serves the residents of Arab a-Ramadin al-Janoubi (detached from the West Bank), who pass through it to the West Bank and back to their homes. The opening hours (3 times a day) of this agricultural checkpoint are longer than usual, about an hour (recently shortened to 45 minutes), and are coordinated with the transportation hours of a-Ramadin children studying in the occupied in the West Bank.

       

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